7/10/09 RED BALL BRAINSTORM

What can you do with a red plastic ball?

Top 5 favorite ideas

 Write words on many balls and make a poem.  Then invite someone to add to or change your poem.

Cover them with writing and address them, and roll them down the hill to be found.

Use them as fishing bobbers

Spill them in a hallway

Make a self-portrait

 

Other ideas:

Use for PE games — use with paddles

Diving pool with balls

Bury it

Push them into wet sand and make designs

Float the balls down a trough of water

Transform it to make it sing when put in water

Use for ball bouncy house — let kids jump in

Make a ball pit

PE Ball Fight

Try to juggle

A toy for the tub, fill it with balls & float in them

Use in carnival games.  Create different possible games

Toss ball game  into fish bowls

Musical instruments —  play them

Make some instrument with it with string  & it goes up & down.

Fill them with rice to make shakers

Cut slip – fill with beans — make maracas

Make a hole & have kids fill them - rattles & decorate

Put stick in the middle of many balls to make a giant abacus

Design a cat toy

Paint them different colors to represent your mood

Costumes — bunch of red currants

A nose

Clown noses

Clown noses for class of 20

Cut them in ½ & make concave designs

Design a “Snitch” — Harry Potter

Design a Ball

Papier mache and make a statue

Center of flower

Glue together for a sculpture

Build a structure

Make a polyhedron out of multiple spheres

Gold leaf then decorate an ornament

Squish it and try to make it round again

A tool for hypnotizing

Make a Halloween costume

A back massager

A cherry in a drink

Drop them on someone’s head a la Captain Kangaroo

A planet like Mars     

Create a planet

Make a mobile

Papier mache them and make small globes

Hang balls in spiral wire and put décor around it

Eyeballs for a big dragon

Make polar bear stand on a papier mache statue

Plant something inside of a ball

Cut them in half to use them to mold ice cream

Draw faces on the balls & create puppets

Make a hat out of them

Make a mold and make 100s more of them

One earring really long to play catch with

Invent a game

String them and decorate the yard